Homeclean acts as an introduction agency between clients and cleaners. On payment of an annual fee of £189 + VAT the agency will contract to introduce domestic cleaners to the client to clean one property only.

We pay £10 per hour directly to our polish lady for domestic cleaning in London, including some ironing. I wouldn't hire anyone cheaper as I know we'd get poor quality and unreliability despite what the website says. Nobody does a good job for peanuts.

hi , regarding the cost of your services will surely depend on the area your aiming at for possable clients , try researching your local competators 1st that will / are covering the area your aiming at for clients , u will b surprised at their hourly rate !

I would rather hire from a trust worthy company at £10-£12 an hour than employee someone at £7 an hour.

At the end of the day you are hiring people to come in to your home, maybe even if you are not there. With the company you highlighted I would be asking myself, as a company that charges for introducing cleaners etc how much liability to they take when things go wrong? What happens if they introduce a thief in to your home?

I pay my cleaner £10/hour in Glasgow, so how they could charge £7/hour in London and get people to work for them, I have no idea.

We used to have a much cheaper firm of cleaners who came in. They were supposed to do 3 x hours @ £7/hour. But they actually had a team of 3 cleaners so they'd only do an hour, their cashflow was based on squeezing as many houses in per day. And they weren't particularly thorough either.

I personally think she could probably go up a couple of quid and lose the cheap skates off the bottom. I have used this technique many times with trade and service businesses. Over promote the business, put the prices up, and skim all the best customers who will take the raise off the top. This technique only loses you the ones with no loyalty to your business, and usually the ones who are more trouble.

You could well be right though, its impossible to tell without more detail about the womans business, area and competition.

I personally think she could probably go up a couple of quid and lose the cheap skates off the bottom. I have used this technique many times with trade and service businesses. Over promote the business, put the prices up, and skim all the best customers who will take the raise off the top. This technique only loses you the ones with no loyalty to your business, and usually the ones who are more trouble.

You could well be right though, its impossible to tell without more detail about the womans business, area and competition.

Click to expand...

I`ve never subscribed to the fewer customers spending more theory.

By the time you`ve proved yourself wrong your in deep money trouble, any sales a sale in my book.

in life your going to meet people who can see straight through you ..........hello!